From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.

From Williston in North Dakota to Beaumont in Texas, an orange curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the states of Central and Southern America. Cheyenne, Billings, Boise, Columbia, Raleigh, Tallahassee, Jackson and Montgomery; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Trumpian sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Trumpian influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Washington